Macron’s obsession with Islam and battered Muslim Ummah: Shafaqna Exclusive

by Tauqeer Abbas
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The reaction in the Muslim world continues to escalate against French President Emmanuel Macron’s anti-Muslim remarks as thousands condemning his hateful language, calling on a boycott on French products. President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan said on Sunday that Macron had “lost his way,” in his second sharp criticism of the French leader in two days over the treatment of Muslims.

When the president of a state shows no tolerance for a religion followed by the five million people of his own country, that makes up 10% of the entire population, how can one expect the minority to bear every vile attack on their holy religion?
Even the beheading of a history teacher by a teenage Muslim student this month while the former was giving a lecture on freedom of expression by showing blasphemous content related to Prophet Muhammad PBUH to his students, did not urge the French authorities to halt such reprehensible activities.

Today, so-called “secular” hatred towards Muslims has become a part of everyday speech for the French government as well as its media. French Muslims keep asking Macron to stop stigmatizing them, but his normalization of hate speech against Islam has almost legitimized the institutionalized discrimination towards the France’s Muslim community.

The French President must bear in mind that non-Muslims are used to relishing movies or other artistic work based on their prophets, but that’s not the case with Muslims. It is a part of every Muslim’s faith to deeply respect all the Prophets mentioned in the holy scriptures like Jesus Christ, Moses, Joseph and all the others. So, they cannot think of ridiculing any of them too. Nevertheless, Muslims can tolerate anything in the world, but insolence in the name of our holy Prophet Muhammad PBUH will always be unbearable for them. World leaders must understand this.

However, it is shameful for the Muslim world. There are 56 Muslim countries in the world yet except few no one dared to condemn Macro’s Islamophobia. Though Several Arab trade associations have announced a boycott of French products, in response to recent comments made by President Emmanuel Macron on Islam. In Kuwait, the chairman and members of the board of directors of the Al-Naeem Cooperative Society decided to boycott all French products and to remove them from supermarket shelves.

But one cannot say that this is enough? Why these Muslims countries do not cut diplomatic ties with France? Infact this was the time to show solidarity with Prophet of Islam PBUH but unfortunately once again Muslims failed to once again send a unified message to France. If this time Muslim countries do not rise for the respect of Holy Prophet PBUH, they will never be able to do this again. Thus forgetting the internal differences all the Muslim countries must cut diplomatic ties with France and recall its diplomatic staff back to their countries. Perhaps it could be good lesson for the Islamophobic Macron.

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